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Author Moitt, Bernard.

Title Women and slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848 / Bernard Moitt.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 217 pages) : maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Blacks in the diaspora
Blacks in the diaspora.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index.
Contents Black women and the early development of the French Antilles -- The Atlantic slave trade, Black women, and the development of the plantations -- Women and labor: slave labor -- Women and labor: domestic labor -- Marriage, family life, reproduction, and assault -- Discipline and physical abuse: slave women and the law -- Women and resistance -- Women and manumission.
Summary Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635--1848Bernard MoittExamines the reaction of black women to slavery. In Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635--1848, Bernard Moitt argues that gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. He details and analyzes the social condition of enslaved black women in the plantation societies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and French Guiana from 1635 to the abolition of slavery in the.
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Subject Enslaved women -- West Indies, French -- History.
Enslaved women.
History.
Women, Black -- West Indies, French -- History.
Women, Black.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Moitt, Bernard. Women and slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2001 0253339138 (DLC) 00143858
ISBN 0253108764 (electronic book)
9780253108760 (electronic book)
0253339138 (cl ; alkaline paper)
9780253339133 (cl ; alkaline paper)
0253214521 (pa ; alkaline paper)
9780253214522 (pa ; alkaline paper)